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RATE OF ATTRITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rate of attrition mean? 

RATE OF ATTRITION (noun)
  The noun RATE OF ATTRITION has 1 sense:

1. the rate of shrinkage in size or numberplay

  Familiarity information: RATE OF ATTRITION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RATE OF ATTRITION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The rate of shrinkage in size or number

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

attrition rate; rate of attrition

Hypernyms ("rate of attrition" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)


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